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it--there--there--the--there's a--there's a great example that i cite here right here in--in--in washington of--of people using rap groups and poetry slams to reach to communities, in this case, african-american young people, who would otherwise not be reached by--by cultural activities, and using them to build community, to build connections. the reason that i think arts and culture is important is not, you know, out of reverence for shakespeare or something, but because arts, culture, participatory--participatory--pa rticipatory arts and culture, and sports, too, provide an unusually good vehicle for making connections that cross these other barriers in our society. it's easier to make connections across lines of race or class or--or gender or--or generation, oftentimes, if one is doing that in the context of singing or--or making cultural productions of various sorts. i happen to be a--have a soft spot in my heart for choral societies because i--i, in my youth, spent a lot of time singing. and i think you can--you can make kinds of connections that are important in a s--in a--in an artis
it--there--there--the--there's a--there's a great example that i cite here right here in--in--in washington of--of people using rap groups and poetry slams to reach to communities, in this case, african-american young people, who would otherwise not be reached by--by cultural activities, and using them to build community, to build connections. the reason that i think arts and culture is important is not, you know, out of reverence for shakespeare or something, but because arts, culture,...
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i remember that when the trollly crossed from washington, d.c. to virginia, it stopped, and negroes had to move to the back. a white man home was bombed because he invited a officer he was stationed with in jrmny. i remember plan meeting posting on telephone poles in articlington. i remember my mother locking the car doors when we drove through halls hill, a black neighborhood, and telling my sister and me not to look at the people in the car stopped next to us at the light because they were colored. i remember endless discussions at my grandmother's in georgia about whether or not a particular lynching vick fill was -- victim was guilty of a crime, but not about whether lynching was right or wrong, and i remember the first and last names of my chewed friends and neighbors and betty is sitting here mongs you, but only the first names of the blacks who worked with us. i never knew their last names. now, for what i have written for the book. i am southern and white, as southern as the red clay of georgia. northern virginia is where i lived, rural g
i remember that when the trollly crossed from washington, d.c. to virginia, it stopped, and negroes had to move to the back. a white man home was bombed because he invited a officer he was stationed with in jrmny. i remember plan meeting posting on telephone poles in articlington. i remember my mother locking the car doors when we drove through halls hill, a black neighborhood, and telling my sister and me not to look at the people in the car stopped next to us at the light because they were...
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the clerk: washington, d.c., december 18, 2010. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable chris coons, a senator from the state of delaware, to perform te duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, senators should expect a series of up to four roll call votes beginning at 10:30 this morning or thereabouts. the first vote will be on cloture with respect to the dream act. if cloture is not invoked on the dream act, the senate would proceed to a cloture vote with respect to the don't ask, don't tell repeal. following the cloture votes, the senate will proceed to vote on two confirmations, albert diaz of north carolina to be a united states circuit judge, evan hollander of maryland to be a united states district judge. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that two additional staff members from senator lieberman's office be granted
the clerk: washington, d.c., december 18, 2010. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable chris coons, a senator from the state of delaware, to perform te duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, senators should expect a series of up to four roll call votes beginning at 10:30 this morning...
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this is the home of the author washington irving so i went to washington irving junior high school and effort of team was the headless horseman. go horseman go. my mother was a homemaker. my father worked in the plant which is where everybody i news father worked and that was the chevrolet plant. he helped organize the union, the united auto workers local and he was treasurer of that uaw local win, the point that i was seven years old, he died on the assembly line. okay, fast-forward, 1962-63, in a good quaker college in pennsylvania. i was on a full four-year scholarship which is really important. they were trying to increase the african-american enrollment that point because out of i think something like almost 900 students they were bringing in this magnum group of black students, for boys than for girls, eight of us and presumably it was boys and girls club that we wouldn't have to intermingle too much with the outside. now what i found though was that there was on campus, on the campus a student for democratic society chapter. now at ses, the students for democratic society was a
this is the home of the author washington irving so i went to washington irving junior high school and effort of team was the headless horseman. go horseman go. my mother was a homemaker. my father worked in the plant which is where everybody i news father worked and that was the chevrolet plant. he helped organize the union, the united auto workers local and he was treasurer of that uaw local win, the point that i was seven years old, he died on the assembly line. okay, fast-forward, 1962-63,...
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"washington post" covered it. one of the leaders was fred field of the vanderbilt fortune interviewed in an article. congress never mentioned it once of the he was a communist and picketing outside of the white house, and this is so incredible. on june 22nd, 1941, june 22, 1941 -- and i have the "new york times" article that describes this. they put down the pickets and chanted a pro-war chant and went home. anybody know what happened then? the soviet union was invaded by hitler's germany. they betrayed the pact on a dime overnight. the people in the american peace mobilization became prowar, and they changed so cynical. they changed it from american peace mobilization to the american people's mobilization. they didn't even change the accommodated hitler cro anymore. they kept that apm and pushed for lend lease, united states to enter the war, fdr was no longer a fascist. now they could be cp-usa could be pro-american because they are allied with stalin so it was really a great day for them. the "new york times" a
"washington post" covered it. one of the leaders was fred field of the vanderbilt fortune interviewed in an article. congress never mentioned it once of the he was a communist and picketing outside of the white house, and this is so incredible. on june 22nd, 1941, june 22, 1941 -- and i have the "new york times" article that describes this. they put down the pickets and chanted a pro-war chant and went home. anybody know what happened then? the soviet union was invaded by...
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october 1947, called to washington d.c. to testified john howard lawson was one of the hollywood 10. communist party member -- albert schmaltz, 47196. i got some of -- all of frank marshall davis's weekly columns that he wrote for the honolulu record from 1949 to 1950 which was the communist party usa in hawaii. i got them through the help of two college students. one found them on line and the other is actually in hawaii and i am amazed is here today. i will keep it secret. she went into a library in the university of hawaii and got the columns on hard copy. what you see here in reading davis's columns was just how anti-american the communist party was in the united states. who was president of the united states after world war ii? harry truman. what party? democrat. he was the enemy. they mercilessly savaged harry truman. davis just took him apart. davis turned harry truman into a demon in these articles. colonialist, imperialists, fascist, racist, monsters, george marshall, you name it. february 9th, 1950. here davis rea
october 1947, called to washington d.c. to testified john howard lawson was one of the hollywood 10. communist party member -- albert schmaltz, 47196. i got some of -- all of frank marshall davis's weekly columns that he wrote for the honolulu record from 1949 to 1950 which was the communist party usa in hawaii. i got them through the help of two college students. one found them on line and the other is actually in hawaii and i am amazed is here today. i will keep it secret. she went into a...
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a and in washington and in new york. it became too vague a term. and i think problem is that the way in which that was pursued -- pursueed -- not just against al-qaeda, not just against the al-qaeda/taliban state in afghanistan at the time, but broadening that out into iraq and so on -- made a lot of people feel that there was something wrong with that conceptually, something wrong with that idea. i remember president bush talking about, you know, eradicating evil, and it struck me that that might be a job beyond even the president of the united states. [laughter] it, evil, unfortunately, is a fact in human life just as much as good is. >> host: next call for sir >> next call for sir rushdie comes from freeland, michigan. go ahead, glenn. >> caller: yes, sir, thank you very much, gentlemen. mr. rushdie, i'd like to get your take on something. i was watching the bbc international or news or cnn or one of those. during the time of the trouble over mohammed cartoons in one of the scandinavian states and they were representing a representative of a mus
a and in washington and in new york. it became too vague a term. and i think problem is that the way in which that was pursued -- pursueed -- not just against al-qaeda, not just against the al-qaeda/taliban state in afghanistan at the time, but broadening that out into iraq and so on -- made a lot of people feel that there was something wrong with that conceptually, something wrong with that idea. i remember president bush talking about, you know, eradicating evil, and it struck me that that...
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worth reading. >> guest: sure. >> host: patricia writes that she's an english major in walla walla, washington. currently, she's studying abroad in india. salman rushdie is one of my favorite authors and one of the reasons why i chose to come to india. i have several questions for him. would salman rushdie, please, discuss the interplay between politics of the developing world and the genre of magical realism explored by authors such as himself and gabrielle mars ya marquez? be a type of literature more suited to nations of the developing word. >> guest: well, certainly it has, it has found very fertile soil in those, in those parts of the world. but, i mean, there have been great practitioner of that kind of writing in european literature, you know, kafka and, indeed, in the literature of the united states in writers of the so-called fabulous movement of john barth and robert coover and others. so, you know, it's a thing that crops up everywhere. but it's true, i think, that in the so-called third world there's less of a, there's less of a buffer zone between private life and public life. you
worth reading. >> guest: sure. >> host: patricia writes that she's an english major in walla walla, washington. currently, she's studying abroad in india. salman rushdie is one of my favorite authors and one of the reasons why i chose to come to india. i have several questions for him. would salman rushdie, please, discuss the interplay between politics of the developing world and the genre of magical realism explored by authors such as himself and gabrielle mars ya marquez? be a...